what are some other things that came up? what is a particularly fragile moment in this war where the fighting seemingly slowed down at the front but russia only stepped up attacks on ukrainian civilians and infrastructure. yeah. great to be with you, jonathan. that s exactly right. the president of the u.s. and of ukraine had a wide-ranging call yesterday. a lot of the focus there was on efforts the u.s. were trying to help ukraine as it batters the russian attacks that are leaving the country in the darkness as you said. these continued attacks on critical infrastructure. a big concern for the ukrainian people as it gets increasingly cold in the country. colleagues report that there is just darkness throughout the entire country. difficulty just using basic functions, electricity, power. and so the biden talked zelenskyy yesterday about continued efforts to support the ukrainian people. both in terms of the critical infrastructure response but also in terms of air defense missiles t
execution in less than a week stemming from anti-government protests. a 23-year-old student was publicly hanged today in the city. he was convicted of wage are war against god for stabbing and killing two security force members last month. local news outlets report two dozen people arrested face execution for their involvement in the nationwide protests. human rights groups say tehran is aggressively cracking down on demonstrations with 118,000 people arrest sod far. representatives from eu nations will meet today to discuss another round of sanctions against russia and additional arms funding to ukraine. if agreed to, the eu s ninth round of suggestion sanctions will target 200 more individuals and entities. it s unknown whether hungary will unite the veto power to
they ll add on to the already considerable level of sanctions, meaning, they ll add additional russians, probably a few hundred will go under sanction and not be able to travel anywhere in the west. they ll put some additional sanctions on particular types of technology that are so-called duel use can be used both for civilian but also can be helpful in creating military equipment. i think those will go under sanction. and then finally, there will be additional sanctions on simply trading with russia, probably even more on the oil and gas sectors. when you put all that together, the way to think about sanctions, they re not like a sudden drone strike. they re like a tank going across the battlefield. the tank is getting closer and closer and bigger and better and stronger in terms of impacting russia. so i think they will go through. i think ultimately they ll be
on a path to join iran as a full blown pariah state, a nation that is going to end up living outside the norms of international laws. you see in effect russia, a powerful nation, starting to model its behavior on the criminal, illegal, and, indeed, unethical behavior of iran. all we can say about it, jonathan, is these are two nations that increasingly, frankly deserve each other. retired four star navy admiral, james stavridis, a pleasure as always. he s got one last word. go navy, beat army next year. it was a classic game. my boys and i watched it over the weekend. thank you, sir, we ll talk to you again soon. up next on t way too early
wasn t especially interested in engaging in that swap for also paul whelan. he was not particularly interested in paul s case in the way that one would have thought he would be. i think we understood that there was there were two options. one option for brittney griner to come home and one option for nobody to come home. i think president biden made the right choice which is an american should come home if they can. the trump administration was nod prepared or not interested in working on lawful detention cases. the and the tools didn t exist during the first two years of paul s detention. we re starting to see that change. david whelan who you just heard from there also tweeted this over the weekend. former president trump appears to have mentioned my brother s paul whelan s wrongful detention more in the last 24 hours than he did in the two years of his presidency in which paul was held hostage by russia, zero. i don t suggest he cares now any